A revolutionary new history book about the spread of Indian ideas, by award-winning and best-selling author William Dalrymple, co-host of the successful podcast Empire.

India is the forgotten heart of the ancient world. For a millennium and a half, India was a confident exporter of its diverse CIVILISATION, creating vast empires of ideas around it. Indian art, religions, technology, astronomy, music, dance, literature, mathematics, and mythology paved the way for the world along a Silk Road that stretched from the Red Sea to the Pacific.

William Dalrymple draws on a lifetime of study to highlight India’s often-forgotten position as the heart of ancient Eurasia. For the first time, he names this dissemination of Indian ideas that transformed the world. From the largest Hindu temple in the world at Angkor Wat to Chinese Buddhism, from trade that helped finance the Roman Empire to the creation of the numbers we use today (including zero), India transformed the culture and technology of the ancient world – and our world as we know it today.

Awards for William Dalrymple and The Anarchy:

• “An exceptional historian with a visceral understanding of India” - The Times
• “Enchantingly readable, deeply researched, and richly atmospheric” - Francis Wheen, Mail on Sunday

Pages: 496, Year of Publication: 1203, Dimensions: 15.3x15.3cm